Humboldt Basin, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Brogan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97907. It lies near City Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Mormon Basin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Humboldt Basin within Malheur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1980 USGS Brogan quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Mormon Basin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt Basin (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. 28 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 September 2020	Natural	2.0 acres	Vale District	CALIFORNIA MTN
16 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	BLUE SPR
10 September 1997	Natural	200 acres	Vale District	WISER CR
1 September 2007	Natural	2.3 acres	Vale District	DIXIE CREEK
7 August 2016	Natural	1.7 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	VAD INC.124/PEDRO2
7 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TATER GULCH
6 August 2016	Natural	5.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PEDRO
4 August 1994	Natural	40 acres	Vale District	SAMPSON GU

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt Basin (historical): 37 past producers, 33 occurrences, 18 prospects, 11 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Berry Nickel	Nickel	Occurrence	Chrysoprase
Black Eagle	Tungsten, Gold	Prospect
Broken Pick Claims	Gold, Tungsten	Prospect
Morton	Mercury, Gold	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Ora Marmo	Gold, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Ora Marmo	Gold, Zinc, Copper	Prospect
Pedro Mountain Silver Prospects	Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1872
Rainbow	Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1901
Randall	Gold, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Randall	Gold, Arsenic, Zinc, Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cake (historical)	1.5 miles	10
Malheur City (historical)	6.6 miles	10
Eldorado	7.7 miles	10
Brogan	13.2 miles	9
Bonita	17.2 miles	9
Caviness (historical)	17.6 miles	9
Dell (historical)	17.7 miles	11
Jamieson	18.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1131899. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.